Defeating Deception 4

Reach down and pick up your Bibles, greet somebody and say I'm glad you're here today.

Turn to the other side.

I love you and the Lord.

Love plus unit eagles, miracles.

You know that.

Come on, let's lift our Bibles up, wave them around, make Jesus glad, the devil mad.

Say this together.

Say Heavenly Father, I am so glad today for your Word and your Spirit.

This atmosphere is an atmosphere of miracles.

Oh, thank God for miracles, signs and wonders.

You're confirming your Word with signs following.

Thank you, jesus, amen.

Let's be seated Today.

Let's turn to 2nd Thessalonians, chapter two, and I don't want you to forget because we're wrapping up our series.

We've done on defeating deception, so we switched our foundation scriptures today a little bit in the interest of brevity.

Didn't want to take up too much time going over for the last three weeks If you weren't here, be sure, and get the media.

For the last three weeks we started off on knowing your enemy.

You know you can't defeat something you don't know.

In every warfare there's intelligence.

You've got to find out about your enemy.

I mean, you know, one time a prophet knew what the enemy king of Syria was gonna do in his bed chamber and informed the armies of Israel.

So I mean, god knows the advantage of intelligence, he knows the advantage of finding out what's going on on the other side.

So we have to know our enemy in his ways.

And then we talked about defeating demonic tactics for a couple of weeks.

We discovered a lot of things about the enemy.

We discovered a lot of things about his tactics.

His tactics are basically, they're limited to things common to man, but our weapons are mighty through God.

And so today we want to wrap up this series, and we'll start with second Thessalonians, chapter two and verse one, paul writing to the Thessalonians, and he said now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and by our gathering together unto him, that you be not soon shaken in mind or neither troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.

See, they were upset.

They thought they'd missed it.

They had not false teaching.

False teaching is on purpose.

False teaching is sent from the devil to confuse.

There are false teachers, there are false prophets, there's false pastors, false churches right now.

But then there are people that are just plain dumb.

They don't rightly divide the word of truth.

You know the word of truth has to be what Rightly divided, it could be wrongly divided, and that's what you have.

You have a lot of people think they know about the Bible and they put things out on Facebook, they put things out on YouTube and they don't know what they're talking about.

So that's why you have to be careful, and so that was the case here.

They misunderstood Paul and they're teaching that the resurrection was passed.

Corinthians had the same problem.

He said you know, if the resurrection was passed, I'm what are we doing here?

Might as well just quit.

Some of them were preaching there wasn't a resurrection.

There was one big wig back in the 40s who claimed to be a Christian leader and he said you know, it's just immaterial where the Christ rose from the dead.

It makes all the difference.

You can't be saved if you don't believe that stupid.

So there you go.

That's a false prophet right there.

So he said look, let me straighten this out.

Let's straighten this out about this coming of Jesus.

Let no man deceive you by any means.

See, they were being deceived, for that day shall not come.

What day?

Well, the coming of the Lord, and I want to say this about the coming of the Lord.

This is another confusion.

There is in two parts the coming of the Lord for the church and the coming of the Lord with the church.

Seven years later, some people will fight you on that subject.

They think that there's going to be a rapture at the end of the tribulation.

Well, these verses right here prove that that can't be.

So.

I never understood the people that want to fight you over this subject.

Well, pastor, what if you're wrong?

Well, you know what I'll repent.

I've got many years to repent, the rest of eternity.

I can say Well, you know, I was wrong about the rapture, sorry, but no, we're not going to see the antichrist.

So he said that day is not going to come, except there come a falling away and apostasia.

First, apostasy has already started, folks.

We just witnessed the apostasy.

We're seeing it more and more and more.

What is that?

A falling away from the faith where you have a tremendous percentage of people who say they're Christians, who don't believe that there is a devil, who don't believe in the sinless, spotless lamb of God.

I mean, I had one post on Facebook.

We took it down.

She was just in.

She talked about Jesus being a sinner.

No, are you stupid?

You're not going to hijack my Facebook page and put a bunch of stuff out like that.

I was nice at first, but I mean she just kept on, kept on so it disappeared.

You're not going to spread lies.

I'm not going to let you.

So the apostasy, the falling away from the faith there's only one faith, one baptism, one Lord.

One church Book of Ephesians says so.

This day of the Lord, the coming of the Lord, it can't come until first there is an apostasy and that man of sin be revealed.

He's talking about the antichrist, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalteth himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he, as God, sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

The temple of God Well, that hasn't been rebuilt.

The temple in Jerusalem was destroyed in 40 AD and there are plans to rebuild it, but it hasn't been rebuilt yet.

So we got a little time, folks, for these things to happen.

It can't happen just overnight.

So he's giving you some information here that I want to give you so you're not deceived.

Remember you're not that when I was with you I told you these things, and now you know.

Now this is the part that's a little bit cloudy.

I want to clear it up.

Now you know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.

The word withholdeth in my margins says or holdeth.

When you look it up in the Greek, it means restraineth.

Now you know what restrains.

There is something that's restraining him until he is revealed.

Then he goes on to say For the mystery of iniquity, death, already work only he who now leteth.

See that word leteth is the same Greek word withholdeth.

It means restrain.

It's identical word.

Why did the King James mess around with these words and not go ahead and use the proper word?

I don't know.

It's one of my gripes about the King.

Some people almost worship the King James version of the Bible.

Well, I don't.

I simply use it because that's what I cut my teeth on.

That's where I know all the scriptures are from and I just don't.

I've tried to preach out of the NLT or the new King.

I just can't do it.

I stick with this, not because I believe it's just wonderful and flawless, no, I.

This is one of my gripes here.

This is needlessly confusing.

I'm here to get rid of the confusion for you.

So it says let's look at it again.

The mystery of iniquity does already work.

Only he, he who leteth, he who restraineth, will restrain until he be taken out of the way.

Who's the he there?

The Holy Ghost.

And where does the Holy Ghost live?

He lives in you personally and he lives in us collectively.

So it means the church.

The church, then, by definition, is the restraining power of the antichrist.

It's our job to stop him from manifesting until God is ready for the whole thing to end, until Jesus comes back for the church.

He's going to come back for the church, and when he does, that restraining power will be removed, and then the son of perdition will be revealed, and not before then.

So I'm convinced he's alive today, but we don't know who he is.

He hadn't been revealed.

Why?

Because we're still here.

And then shall that wicked be revealed, whom the Lord verse eight shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming.

Second part of the coming.

We're going to be there when that happens.

He's coming back seven years later.

And when he does, what's he going to do?

Well, he's going to.

He's going to kill the antichrist, destroy him and the false prophet, and they will be thrown.

Their spirits will be thrown into the lake of fire and the devil himself is going to be thrown into the bottomless pit and the millennial reign of Christ will begin and we will rule and reign with him for a thousand years.

The Bible says that after a thousand years the devil will be loosed and he will deceive the nations that are then upon the earth for a little season.

Well, you think somebody like the devil would learn after a thousand years in the bottomless pit.

What's the bottomless pit?

Well, I don't know where it's at, but I know one thing it doesn't have a bottom.

That's pretty deep.

I mean, you can't sink any lower than the bottomless pit.

And he's had a thousand years to start thinking his whole strategy and guess what he's still going to come out of there, trying to deceive people.

That's why I'm teaching this, because this whole series has been was inspired by Billy Graham's quote a couple of years before he passed and went to heaven.

It's time for Christians to stop underestimating the power of Satan to deceive, and we're living in that last of the last days.

Second Thessalonians first Thessalonians both of those are end time books.

First Thessalonians four talks about the rapture.

It will all be changed.

I like what Brother Osteen used to say.

The Bible says that in a twinkling of an eye.

He used to call it an atomic second.

I think nowadays we'd call it a nanosecond.

I mean, that's faster than you can blink.

We're going to be changed.

Are we going to be changed and sit here and be under the heel of the antichrist?

Of course not.

We can't coexist with the antichrist, can't coexist with the Holy Ghost Spiritville church.

He can't coexist with us.

We have to be taken out of the way.

Are y'all with me now?

So this whole business about the rapture occurring at the end of the Tribulation is just bunk.

It's people that are misinterpreting what Jesus said about the end times.

Who did Jesus come to talk to?

He came to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

He wasn't talking to the church.

In the Gospels he was talking to the Jews.

So you can't take what he says about the end days.

It has nothing to do with the rapture of the church that was hidden and revealed by who?

Well, mainly Paul.

Paul was the one that had the revelation of what was going to happen, how it was going to happen, and John later, book of Revelation.

Are y'all getting this now?

So he's going to destroy Jesus, is going to destroy him with the brightness of his coming, even him whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power and signs and lying wonders.

I've heard people preach against signs and wonders because that's all the devil has.

Well, we've got greater ones.

Are you stupid?

See, again, you just don't want to know the truth.

No, we need signs.

If the devil's got them, we've got greater ones.

And with all deceivableness there's that word and of unrighteousness in them that perish, they're deceived and they have unrighteousness in them, say they're not saved and they're going to what?

Parish why?

It tells you why Because they received not the love of the truth.

They received not, didn't say they didn't hear it, said they didn't receive it.

See, our job is not to make people receive.

We can't make people receive the truth.

We have to tell the truth, we have to speak the truth and let God come back and confirm the truth with signs and wonders and miracles, and even then they're not going to believe.

There's gonna be people that perish.

That's just how I shall.

It is Now.

There's gonna be a lot of people that get saved for all that Believe.

That's.

The next step is to see a great revival on the earth, cause I believe God's not satisfied with the size of the harvest.

He's got long patience for the precious fruit of the earth.

James said has long patience for it till he received the early in the latter rain.

All right, and so for this cause, see, they didn't receive the love of the truth.

And I noticed verse 11,.

Since they didn't receive the love of the truth, for this cause, god shall send them strong delusion.

Wait a minute, wait, hold on.

I thought the devil was the deceiver.

Yeah, until they had a chance to know the truth.

And then God says all right, you don't want the truth, I'm gonna send you delusion, I'm gonna feed you on delusion.

And what's the purpose of that Verse 12, that they all might be damned?

We better get the thinking of what God is straight in our head.

He's a wonderful heavenly father to us.

But let me tell you something he's a righteous judge to those who reject the truth and love unrighteousness.

And he goes on to say it Verse 12,.

They believe not the truth.

See, they might all be damned who believe not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

He had pleasure in voting for Biden, proud of being transgender, proud of their gay, lesbian, weird lifestyle.

In fact, they accuse us of being Nazis and being so.

They're the haters, they're the despots, they're the bullies.

You gotta agree with them or else they're gonna kill you.

You gotta understand God's not pleased with any of this.

Now, I'm not saying they can't be saved.

I'm saying they're right on the bubble.

They've got about that long to repent and get saved.

And how they're gonna ever repent if we don't say anything?

We used to go around trying to be nice all the time and not have anybody hate us.

Well, you might as well.

Just you know what.

That's just not even right.

You can't control what people think of you.

You've gotta take the truth.

You've gotta buy the truth and sell it, not Proverbs 23 and verse 23.

Buy the truth and sell it, not Wisdom, instruction and understanding.

I mean we need to be sold out to the truth and unreserved in speaking it.

So then let's look over at 2 Corinthians 4.

We can just go home now.

I think I pretty well preached the message.

Verse 3, just another understanding of why.

You need to know why that people believe a lie.

But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost, in whom the God of this world, more accurately, the God of this age, hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine under them.

So this God of this age is blinding their minds, their minds.

That's why they think they're totally crazy.

They don't know how to think.

They don't know how to tell good from evil.

They don't know what you end is up.

They're going.

Really, they're insane.

The worst of them are insane.

And when you look at the LGBTQ all the old veterans that we're so happy to have gay marriage back five, six, 2014, I think it started gay marriage.

They were so happy to have it, but this whole transgender thing has got them.

They're worried now because they see a whole group of people that have gone off their rockers.

See, they're trying to fit in.

You know, the channel two newsman is married to a man.

You know Frank Billingsley.

He's been around Houston for 25, 30 years.

He looks totally respectable and he is not like all these other crazy people that go and dress him modestly and say and do things in public.

He's got a family.

See, that's what they wanted.

They wanted to fit in.

And now this latest group is so filled with this God of this age that's blinded, their thinking that they are gone off their rockers.

And now you know the old.

You know Novrata Lova, the tennis star.

She's a lesbian, see, she's speaking out against Bruce Jenner, speaking out against the excesses of the transgender movement.

Well, they can go ahead and do it, but it's not gonna do any good.

They're still on the wrong side.

They're just trying to appeal to the guilty white liberals.

That's who's behind all of this craziness?

They wear the accusation oh, I've been so ugly I've been.

Oh, I've been so.

I've been so I discriminated against people of color.

I've been, I'm, a white supremacist.

And I've been the same way with these poor gay people.

I've just not treated them right.

See, they just accept all of the accusation.

Who's accusing them?

The devil is accusing them.

No, let's stand strong in the faith that we have.

This stuff is wrong, period in the story.

That's all we have to say.

Is wrong.

We don't hate the people, we hate what they're doing.

I'm not ever gonna agree with it, ever, never gonna agree with it, never gonna hire it.

I don't care what laws they pass, never gonna hire one.

I don't ask discrimination.

Yeah, exactly, I have the freedom of association.

Buddy, have you read the Constitution?

They're trying to give us all this flax so we'll just give up our rights.

They're trying to hate on us so badly that we wanna be liked and so we'll just yield.

That's what happened with the gay marriage.

We just yielded.

No, no, it's not marriage.

That's not.

It's not marriage.

You might be hooked up and you might have been had a ceremony, but you ain't married.

Just God invented marriage and he didn't invent that.

Talking about deception, what deceived them, the God of this age?

Now, what did this?

Yeah, the devil, well, the devil.

But let me show you.

When you look up in the linguistic key to the Greek New Testament, which is written by Greek scholars and I'm not one, I've never studied Greek.

I didn't go to college to study Greek, but I've got a book about this big and I ordered on Amazon and they've got all the Greek scholars that tell me what all these words mean.

And this is what they say about the God of this age.

It's all that floating mass of thoughts.

See, again, the mind.

They're blinding the mind and you do understand this.

They blind the mind.

All that floating mass of thoughts, opinions, maxims, speculations, hopes, impulses, aims and aspirations that are at any time current in the world.

So critical race theory, white supremacy, black lives, matter, communism, all of that, lgbtq, green energy.

The president, the CEO of Shell, said yo, we're going down the wrong road.

This Shell is owned, this Royal Dutch Shell.

It's a European country that owns it.

It's a European massive oil company.

He came out the other day and said we can't depend on solar energy, we gotta have fossil fuels.

It's too soon.

We're going down the wrong road.

Even he's understanding that.

It's religion.

See, they've got a religion that they believe in.

It's false.

They want you to convert over.

Did you know that we lived on the three hottest days of the entire world in history Just last week, three days in a row, it's the hottest in history.

I got to looking at it.

It's based on a computer program in the University of Maine.

See, there's no facts.

It's a computer program, no doubt programmed by a bunch of nut jobs that believe in green energy.

Channel two weather oh yeah, we've got to do something about that.

Oh, it's the hottest days in history.

No, it's not.

You don't even know that.

You hadn't been around that long to say that.

Oh, for goodness sake, it's just stupid.

See, you gotta listen.

We've got to stay awake.

Because you believe one lie, it opens the door to the next lie and the God of this age can blind your mind.

When you start believing lies, you're not believing God's word anymore.

You're not believing that he's the creator.

See, they have one thing in common they don't believe in God and they don't believe he created anything.

All right, so you know voters' rights.

You know voter rights.

That sounds good.

You know they have these names.

They put on stuff.

Well, what that means is dead people vote.

Dogs and cats vote.

Rin 1010 votes.

But most of you are too young to know who Rin 1010 was.

I grew up with Rin 1010.

Now, all you just know that was a dog on television Rin 1010.

Blassy.

All right, that's enough dogs.

Kitterick Does anybody know Kitterick?

Kitterick, channel 13 cat.

I met her one time, shook hands with her, they get to vote.

All right.

So the church is the restraining power.

See, how can we hinder the secret deception if we ourselves are deceived?

That's the whole point of this message.

Let's wake up.

Let's not believe lies.

It might seem like it's no big deal.

Well, I've witnessed this long enough.

I've seen people start off over here and the next thing you know they're right out the door.

They have no appetite anymore for the truth.

Once you believe one little bitty lie that helps you get along with the rest of your family, all right.

See, the George Floyd thing was a huge lie.

Every bit of it was a lie and I tried my best to tell people, even though at the risk of looking like a racist.

Oh, you just believe those cops murdered him.

Well, no, he actually swallowed drugs and that's what killed him.

See, I'm not gonna go along with the narrative.

I'm just not gonna do it.

It looked bad what they did to him, kneeling on his throat and all that.

I'm not commenting on whether that's humane or not.

I just know that these guys are superhuman when they ingest these drugs and they cannot be controlled.

I've watched hours of body cam footage of this and my sympathies are entirely with the police officers.

We asked them to do the impossible.

We throw them out there and we put body cams on them and we fire them and we, in fact we put them up for murder when they're just trying to go home at the end of their shift.

And these people are ingesting substances that may, and they're big anyway.

George Ford was a huge human being.

He was big.

That wasn't their first rodeo with that guy.

He's a known criminal, been in prison 12 years.

Look what they did, see.

They ride it all across the country.

Cities were burned.

I don't know how many people died because of that whole thing.

That's a lie.

Every bit of it was a lie.

We're not gonna see.

But I had people in my church.

They just went along with it because they're relative, see, and they just wanna be invited to Christmas dinner and Thanksgiving dinner and they have and listen.

I understand, I do.

I understand.

But Jesus said it first.

He said the people of your own family are gonna turn on you.

So who do you love more, jesus and the truth?

Who do you love your flesh and blood family?

You're gonna have to decide.

I'm gonna say it's gonna get worse.

I said it's gonna get worse.

You've gotta make a decision right now that you're gonna follow the truth, no matter who it identifies you with or separates you from.

I made that decision a long time ago and it's led me down this pathway that I didn't know I was going down.

I didn't know what the future was gonna be when I started this out and some of the stands I took all the way back to the Clinton days.

That's how long I've been doing it and I stood for the truth.

During the Clinton years I stood up in our pulpit in that first building over there and I spoke the truth.

God revealed some things to me and I spoke the truth.

I had people leave because they're more Democrat than they are Christian.

The Democrat Party is the party of the Antichrist Period.

Well, god's not a Republican I know he's got a side, though and the Republicans somehow?

I mean it's just the mercy of God.

We've lobbied and we stood for so many years that the Republican Party decided to go along with more along with what we believe than the Democrats.

The Democrats just threw everything away.

They threw everything away Long time ago.

I'm not saying the Republican Party is perfect at all.

I'm not saying that at all.

I get angry at some of the stupid things I see happening, but you know what?

The grassroots?

They're having an effect.

I said it's having an effect.

Amen.

Are y'all getting anything out of this today?

So don't allow anyone or anything to cause you to compromise.

So the Antichrist spirit the Bible says is working.

Now.

John first.

John says that there's many Antichrists, so the Antichrist spirit is especially in power and banking, where the money is, where the politics are all of that, that's where the Antichrist spirit oh, that's right, it's evil.

We don't have.

No, we need to get right in the middle of it and restrain it.

We ought to be working for the big banks.

We ought to work our way up.

We ought to be sitting on the board of directors at some of these big banks and putting a stop to woke-ism.

Amen, boy, they're trying to see.

The other side has gotten places high up in these banking and large court.

Look at, look at Anheuser-Busch.

Look at, look at Ben Jerry's.

Ben Jerry's lost $2 billion of cap valuation just a few days when they came out criticizing America on July the 4th.

These are stupid people.

God has handed them over to a mind void of judgment.

If I was a stockholder in any of those, I would join a lawsuit and I would sue the upper echelons of those corporations because they've got a conflict of interest.

They're not doing the right thing for the profits They've turned their corporation into a political machine.

They're given to Democrats, they're taking corporate money, and so if you've got a 401K or you invested in the stock market, you might ought to check where your money is invested in.

If you see Ben Jerry's or if you see Anheuser-Busch, or you see JC Morgan Chase or you see Wells Fargo Bank or you see any of these play, you're gonna know that some of your money is going for the woke.

You might think about divesting yourself.

Are you with me now?

I've got a lot of silence on that one.

Nobody aimed in me on that.

I'm not.

So we see that many in the church are in danger and they're not irretrievable, it's not over.

And this church is gonna stand for the truth and we're gonna persuade as many as we can persuade, and we're seeing a movement.

I'm telling you, we're seeing people move off of where they were.

I've seen pastors, I've seen churches, we've seen people that were just solidly anti-political oh no, I never touched that.

And now they're waking up and they're beginning to say, look, I've got to do this.

God is dealing with their hearts.

They're witnessing with the truth when they hear things and things are changing.

I mean, god knows how to wake up the church.

He knows how to wake up the church.

You know, if it was a lost cause, he wouldn't have told me to do anything about it.

He would have told me to get a white gown and go, move to Arizona and find a barren mountain to get on to and wait for him to come back.

Why Arizona?

I say that all the time.

Why 2K?

I knew people that went to.

They sold out and went to Arizona.

I think if I was going to sell out, I wouldn't go to Arizona anyway, would I?

Pretty hot and pretty dry there.

So notice here that God is going to finish them off, the ones that didn't love the truth and had pleasure in unrighteousness.

He's going to give them even more deception.

He's going to let them be filled with it.

Why?

Because he's separating us and he's got a ripe harvest ready to hear the truth and get saved.

And then we're going to get out of here and what's going to be left for the antichrist to rule over is that group of people that had a chance and rejected.

They rejected it.

Well, Pastor, I've read where there's going to be lots of people saved during the tribulation.

There are going to be people saved during the tribulation the Bible mentions that but they're not ever going to be in the church, they're never going to be the body of Christ.

They're going to be saved in the sense that they don't go to hell.

We live in the age of the church.

Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

We're saved by grace, through faith.

That's what we're saved.

But once we're gone, once the Holy Ghost is gone, they can't be saved that way.

They're going to be saved by what they had heard and rejected, and then they're going to put two and two together and realize you know what?

That rapture?

That wasn't a UFO, that was Jesus coming back to the church, and they're going to realize that they missed.

They missed out.

And the only way then to get saved is not to take the mark of the beast.

And that means what it means you're either going to starve to death or you're going to get martyred.

You're going to have to die a pretty tough death.

Why not die to the flesh now?

Why not just separate yourself right now and get saved right now, instead of waiting until you have no other choice?

But that's what's going to happen to a lot of people, and when they get saved, yeah, they'll die a pretty terrible death, but their spirits will be saved and they won't have to go to hell.

But they'll never be like us, they'll never have our privileges, they'll never be on our level.

Oh, to be a believer, to be a new creation, to be someone that is part of the body of Christ, oh, we haven't really seen what kind of honor it's been bestowed on us.

And so let's just continue to stir ourselves to love the truth, no matter where it leads us.

Love the truth.

Everybody say I love the truth, I reject Unrighteousness, I take no pleasure in it, I speak against it wherever I see it.

See, this is part of it.

You can't just you can't put up with it and say, well, that's what they're doing.

No, we have to stand up somebody, just like the song, I will not be silent.

You know, we spoke that in the context of praising him.

I'm gonna praise him.

Well, we have another context.

We will not be silent in the face of evil being spoken as if it's the truth.

So we're gonna stand up at our state capital.

We're gonna stand up at our school board meeting.

We're gonna stand up in our neighborhood.

We're gonna stand up at our office, in our place of business.

We're gonna stand up and stand for what is truth.

And it may not make you a lot of friends you might be surprised how many friends you do make, though.

There's a lot of people just don't have your courage because they don't have your knowledge.

But once you know, the Holy Ghost will give you boldness.

I said the Holy Ghost will give you boldness.

So let's love the truth and let's have no pleasure in unrighteousness but speak up against it.

And then you know, let's fellowship with believers.

The time for having ungodly friends is over and we're gonna stand up for the truth.

For having ungodly friends is over.

The time of trying to renew acquaintances with people you went to school with that have no godly purpose in your life.

That's over with.

I mean, people did that 25, 30, 40 years ago.

What any big deal.

But to now you know you're liable to get friends with people that hate your guts when they find out what you're really all about.

Let's hang together so we don't have to hang separately.

Amen.

Let's fellowship with other like-minded believers.

Let's get strong.

Iron sharpens iron.

Everybody needs to be encouraged from time to time, and the further away you are from other believers, the further more vulnerable you are to maybe possibly compromising just to have a friend or a compromise and to have a family member.

You know, for some of us our family is no longer available to us.

Well then, those people need to be invited to holiday gatherings.

Those people are worthy of elevator.

I mean, we're the family of God.

Do we believe that or not?

We're the family of God.

Some people are being see in the early church.

In the early church when those Jews got saved, on the day of Pentecost, 3000 Jews got saved and it says they had all things common.

There was not one thing of lack among them.

It says some of them, having houses and land, sold them and they brought the price of it and laid it at the apostles feet that distribution might be made.

Why did they do that?

Because some of them were disowned and disinherited.

When their families found out that they were Christians, that they had given their hearts to Jesus Christ, you know, they were hated in their family.

Their inheritances were canceled and now they suddenly had nothing.

So what did?

Well, the church was there.

All in all, the church was their new family.

The church became a place of encouragement for them.

Well, we're gonna see much the same in these last days.

We're coming into a time when we're all we're gonna have as each other.

I said, all we're gonna have is each other Boy.

Another silent time here.

I know you don't wanna believe it, but I've seen it.

I've seen it increase.

I hear the testimony Some of you come up.

I had somebody testify the other day that they went to their families and said do not vote for Hillary, and they just disowned them.

They don't get invited.

They just took them off of Facebook and no longer friends.

I mean just exed them off.

They're dead.

That's their family.

Let me tell you something.

I've seen it over.

That's just one, the latest one I heard about the other day, but I've been hearing about it for years.

Are y'all with me now?

And then finally, find a place to serve and be a part of resisting deception, which is right here.

Find a place to serve.

Find a place to serve and be part of it.

Be part of something bigger than you.

We can all have a part ourselves, but then, when you're part of this effort, you're part of something bigger than yourself.

Come on, lift your hands and receive today.

Father, we thank you that we're here to defeat deception.

We're not gonna give into it, we're not gonna succumb to it and we're gonna expose the devil and the antichrist spirit everywhere we see it.

And Jesus, let's hear a word of prophecy now, please.

Hallelujah.

Woo, I tell you it's got a good word for you and it's coming.

And it's about this church, folks, it's about the church.

You wanna hear this.

Woo, oh, for there's coming.

A great outpouring of my spirit, says the Lord, like you have never seen before, and it's coming into the church.

My church, for the church is gonna shine again.

The church is gonna shine.

My church and folks, many of my churches, have fallen away, fallen away, and they've gotta get ready for this great revival that I'm sending, sayeth the Lord.

And they've gotta get them ready.

I've gotta get them ready, I've gotta get you ready.

Some of you think you're ready, but when my spirit hits ya, oh, you're gonna walk differently.

I'm talking to spirit that you've never seen before and never felt.

I'm talking about a great outpouring from my spirit Like you have never seen.

Folks, you're gonna change, work out, I'm gonna make Jesus your life like you have never seen.

You're gonna walk differently.

You're gonna walk in the atmosphere of this church and hit the floor.

Things are gonna change, drastic changes.

I'm telling you, you're gonna see church like it's supposed to be.

In my spirit, that word is coming forth.

That word is coming forth that I'm gonna speak and you're gonna walk like that.

You're gonna walk like you've never walked before with me.

Do you hear me?

We've got a battle to fight out there.

Does it look bad out there?

Oh yes, but you're gonna be different.

You're gonna walk with me, but the church is gonna blast into this world and it's gonna take over.

Do you hear me?

It's going into every area of business, every area of government.

I'm bringing it forth.

So stick with me, sayeth the Lord, and you'll hear the truth, not the lies that are going out.

This church is gonna shine, sayeth the Lord your God.

Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.

Let's lift our hands and receive that Glory to God.

Hallelujah, Thank you Lord.

Thank you, Lord, with the light of the world and the salt of the earth.

Praise God.